Eddie Gallagher case reveals President Trump's ignorance of the military, fired Navy secretary writes.
"Shortly thereafter, I received a second call from Cipollone who said the president would order me to restore Gallagher to the rank of chief," he wrote.
Last week, Trump tweeted that Gallagher would be allowed to keep his Trident pin, Spencer wrote, but"I did not believe it to be an official order, chiefly because every action taken by the president in the case so far had either been a verbal or written command."that a tweet wasn't an official order and that if Trump was ordering the Navy to end the review proceedings, he needed to do so in writing.
In his column on Wednesday, Spencer confirmed that he went behind Esper's back — the reason the Defense Department gave for firing him.Nov. 25, 2019Spencer wrote that he believed that Trump was swayed by Gallagher's attorneys and others who advocated for him publicly. In an interview on Fox News Channel's"Fox & Friends" on Sunday, Gallagher accused the Navy of seeking to strip the SEAL designation as retribution for Trump's intervention on his behalf.
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